Iwashimizu Hachimangū

Iwashimizu Hachiman Shrine 石清水八幡宮
The Iwashimizu Hachiman Shrine
Religion
Affiliation	Shinto
Deity	Hachiman
Festival	iwashimizu-sai (石清水祭) (September 15th)
Type	Hachiman Shrine Kokushigenzaisya Twenty-Two Shrines Chokusaisha Beppyo jinja Shikinaisya Former kanpeitaisha
Location
Location	Yawata, Kyoto
Shown within Japan
Geographic coordinates	34°52′47″N 135°42′00″E
Architecture
Architectural style	Hachiman-zukuri
Date established	859
Website
www.iwashimizu.or.jp
Glossary of Shinto

Main gate of the Iwashimizu Hachimangū

Iwashimizu Hachimangū (石清水八幡宮) is a Shinto shrine in the city of Yawata in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

Shinto belief

People worship Hachiman at the shrine. Hachiman is the Shinto kami of Imperial legitimacy. Since it was built in 859, Hachiman has been recognized as Emperor Ojin.

Related pages

• List of Shinto shrines
• Twenty-Two Shrines
• Modern system of ranked Shinto shrines

References

• Breen, John and Mark Teeuwen. (2000). Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-2362-7; ISBN 9780824823634; OCLC 43487317
• Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). Gukanshō: The Future and the Past. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-03460-0ISBN 978-0-520-03460-0; OCLC 251325323
• Kanda, Christine Guth. (1985). Shinzō: Hachiman Imagery and Its Development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-80650-4ISBN 978-0-674-80650-4
• Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 194887
• ____________. (1962). Studies in Shinto and Shrines. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 399449
• ____________. (1963). Vicissitudes of Shinto. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 36655
• Maas, Jeffrey P. (1999). Yoritomo and the Founding of the First Bakufu: The Origins of Dual Government in Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3591-9ISBN 978-0-8047-3591-9
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691

Other websites

• (in Japanese) Iwashimizu Hachimangū web site (in Japanese)
• Photos of Iwashimizu Hachimangū and references in ancient Japanese literature